Editing Louis Farrakhan (section)

=== Racism and black nationalism ===
The [[Anti-Defamation League]] classifies Farrakhan as a racist,<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-10-19|title=Opinion {{!}} Louis Farrakhan's Long Record of Bigotry|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/opinion/letters/louis-farrakhan-anti-semitism.html|access-date=2021-04-27|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] considers the [[Nation of Islam]] (NOI) as a [[hate group]] and a [[Black nationalism|black nationalist]] organization.<ref name="SPLCNOI">{{Cite news|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nation-islam|title=Nation of Islam|work=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011080634/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nation-islam|archive-date=October 11, 2019|access-date=October 16, 2019}}</ref> According to the SPLC, the NOI asserts that [[Black supremacy|black people are racially superior]] to [[white people]]<ref name="SPLCNOI" /> and promotes a "fundamentally anti-white theology"<ref name=SPLCFarrakhan>{{cite news|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/louis-farrakhan|title=Louis Farrakhan|work=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|access-date=May 5, 2019}}</ref> amounting to an "innate black superiority over whites".<ref name="SPLCNOI" /> According to the NOI, whites were created 6,600 years ago as a "race of [[Shaitan|devils]]" by an evil scientist named [[Yakub (Nation of Islam)|Yakub]],<ref name="SPLCFarrakhan" /> a story which originated with the founder of the NOI, [[Wallace Fard Muhammad|Wallace D. Fard]].<ref name="SPLCNOI" />

The NOI's division into two factions after Elijah Muhammad's death was caused in part by the fact that new leader Warith Mohammed<!-- Muhammad is used in the source, but WP uses 'Mohammed' for his article and in this article mostly. -->  wished to reject the Yakub myth, while national spokesman Farrakhan wanted to reaffirm it.<ref>{{cite book|last=Deutsch|first=Nathaniel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o7IwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA152|title=Inventing America's "Worst" Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael|publisher=University of California Press|year=2009|isbn=9780520255241|location=Berkeley, Los Angeles & London|page=152}}</ref> At an event in Milwaukee in August 2015, Farrakhan said: "White people deserve to die, and they know, so they think it's us coming to do it".<ref>{{cite web|date=August 31, 2015|title=Farrakhan Promotes Million Man March with Anti-Semitism & Bigotry|url=https://www.adl.org/blog/farrakhan-promotes-million-man-march-with-anti-semitism-bigotry|access-date=May 3, 2019|work=Anti-Defamation League|archive-date=March 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325163512/https://www.adl.org/blog/farrakhan-promotes-million-man-march-with-anti-semitism-bigotry|url-status=dead}}</ref>